Re: Spell-as-you-type language recognition

On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Per Öberg wrote:
> I'm thinking of implementing a new feature in kmail but I'm unsure of
> where to start.

First you should join our development mail list: [email protected]. ;-) 
Let's move this discussion there.


> The feature as I see it:
> * A user can choose more than one languages that are usually used.

Yes.

> * The spell-as-you type should try to guess what language is used by
> choosing the dicitionary that gives the smallest amount of errors.

That would be great.


> * It might be possible to mix two languages. As is often the case in
> for example a bug report some parts are in my native language and
> some in english. In that case it would be preferable to use two
> languages.

Yes.


> * There should also be some status indicator that shows 
> what language is identified and it should be possible to overrun this
> feature.

Yes.


> Question about this feature:
> * Does it already exist?

No. There were some plans, but I think the developer working on this 
vanished.


> * Where should it go?  (KMail, KDE, aspell/ispell)

Sonnet 
(http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/sonnet/html/index.html).


> * Is it interesting?

This is definitely very interesting.


Regards,
Ingo

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